Lady Gaga's celibacy statement is as fake as her flame-throwing bra

Lady GaGa is playing yet another character: she’s set herself up as a sexual role model for women. Encouraging others to mirror her own celibacy at a launch for a new MAC lipstick, the pantless popstar said, “If you can’t get to know somebody you shouldn’t be having sex with them.”

She went on to deplore “poor” sex education in schools and urged women to get tested regularly for HIV and Aids.

I can’t help thinking Gaga might not have been the best choice as a role model for abstinence. It’s like using James Corden in a public service announcement for salad or Kelly Brook to encourage children to read Flaubert.

Lady Gaga has contrived her image and fame through her sexuality, her thirst for attention and her nerve. While the sentiments and advice in this instant are correct and good, the timing isn’t ideal: she posed topless in Q last month.

Perhaps I’m being too harsh and Gaga really has committed herself to celibacy, which, by the way, means a lifetime of abstinence not a couple of weeks. “I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it’s easier,” she has confessed in the past, and compared making music to having “mindblowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea you’re writing about at the time.”

But whether it’s the blatant contrivance of her image, the fakery or her empty songs, like her products, I just don’t buy it.